Norman O. Brown Books
September 25, 1913 – October 2, 2002
Norman Oliver Brown was an American classicist renowned for his translations and insightful commentaries on the works of Hesiod. A distinguished student of Carl Schorske and Isaiah Berlin, his academic career saw him teach classics at prestigious institutions including Wesleyan University, the University of Rochester, and UC-Santa Cruz. His scholarship illuminated ancient Greek texts for a new generation of students and scholars.
Originally published in 1966 and now recognized as a classic, Norman O. Brown's meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the grace of a natural, instinctual innocence is available once more for a new generation of readers. Love's Body is a continuation of the explorations begun in Brown's famous Life Against Death . Rounding out the trilogy is Brown's brilliant Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis .
Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis
- 250 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Part of a trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature, this book contains eleven essays that covers 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.
A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
